Climate averages 1991–2020
Fort Lauderdale weather
in August.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Fort Lauderdale: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes August a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Davie (11 km away). In August its highs average 30.4°C, about as warm as Fort Lauderdale, with 163 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fort Lauderdale ranks joint 221st of 498 for the warmest August highs and joint 483rd of 498 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 498 cities is 29.9°C; Fort Lauderdale is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 163 mm to 172 mm.
The annual picture
August in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Fort Lauderdale climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.0°C17.2°C | 17.2°C | 49 | 7.3 | 10.711 h |
| February | 23.8°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 40 | 6.6 | 11.311 h |
| March | 24.9°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 53 | 7.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 26.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 62 | 8.4 | 12.813 h |
| May | 28.2°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 105 | 12.8 | 13.413 h |
| June | 29.3°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 174 | 21.5 | 13.714 h |
| July | 30.1°C25.3°C | 25.3°C | 133 | 21.9 | 13.614 h |
| August, selected | 30.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 163 | 23.4 | 13.113 h |
| September | 29.3°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 172 | 22.0 | 12.312 h |
| October | 27.8°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 122 | 14.9 | 11.612 h |
| November | 25.6°C20.9°C | 20.9°C | 55 | 8.7 | 10.911 h |
| December | 24.0°C18.8°C | 18.8°C | 41 | 8.0 | 10.511 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
August in nearby cities
- Davie in AugustUnited States · 11 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 25.4°C · 163 mm rain
- Pompano Beach in AugustUnited States · 13 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.3°C · 142 mm rain
- Pembroke Pines in AugustUnited States · 16 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 25.7°C · 163 mm rain
- Coral Springs in AugustUnited States · 21 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 24.5°C · 182 mm rain
- Deerfield Beach in AugustUnited States · 22 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 25.2°C · 142 mm rain
- Miami Gardens in AugustUnited States · 22 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 25.8°C · 163 mm rain
- Boca Raton in AugustUnited States · 27 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 142 mm rain
- Hialeah in AugustUnited States · 32 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 25.3°C · 144 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Fort Lauderdale) is explained once on the Fort Lauderdale year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Pembroke Pines, Miami Gardens and Davie lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.